The Admiral of Hogwarts

"You're right. Dumbledore isn't a god; he naturally makes mistakes. But he corrected his mistakes after making them when he was young, and in the end, he personally made up for the losses caused by those mistakes. We can't deny his greatness because of the mistakes he made when he was young."

After hearing detailed and comprehensive information about Dumbledore's youth from Hugo, Harry felt a lot of relief, because this prodigal son's return didn't affect Dumbledore's greatness.

However, when the initial confusion was completely cleared away, Harry suddenly focused on a word Hugo had said earlier. "By the way, did you just say that Grindelwald was Dumbledore's lover?"

"Yes, that's indeed the case." Hugo was a little surprised as to why Harry would notice this aspect, but he quickly replied, "Although it sounds a bit strange, the wizarding world is much more open-minded in this regard than the ordinary world—"

Obviously, Harry wasn't the only one feeling confused because of the news disclosed in the newspaper; the matter concerning Dumbledore was causing a great commotion at the school.

But the fifth and seventh-year students didn't have much time to dwell on this matter, because they were only six weeks away from the most important exams.

Harry and Ron had been in low spirits during this time. Harry felt somewhat depressed after seeing some of the bad things his father had done during his student days in the Pensieve, because it was completely different from the great figure of his father in his memory.

Ron, on the other hand, was worried about his exams and Quidditch. He felt that he was very unprepared in both aspects, so he always felt that he would mess everything up.

But their terrible mental states seemed very normal in Hogwarts Castle, and no one noticed the concerns they were each pondering. Because the exams were driving everyone preparing to take them crazy.

"It's really strange. I've already memorized every book I've read and mastered the casting of all spells and the making of potions from first year to now, but why do I still feel nervous?"

In Ravenclaw Tower, Hermione, sitting in a corner, rubbed her face and complained to Hugo and Veneto, who were sitting opposite her.

"You're just experiencing habitual anxiety." Veneto said, glancing at Hermione. "During the process of converting from carbon-based lifeform to Heroic Spirit, this kind of problem caused by the friction between the body and the soul is common."

"You're right." Hermione closed her eyes, thought for a moment, and said, "For example, I have the urge to display ship equipment, or at least a ship girl form."

"This transformation isn't easy, so try to relax as much as possible usually." Hugo smiled, took out a chocolate that a ship girl had given him a few days ago, and gave a piece to his sister.

Sure enough, sweets are something that can effectively soothe people's emotions, even for ship girls. So after eating two pieces of chocolate, Hermione quickly cheered up. "By the way, have you guys looked at those career brochures these past few days?"

"What's the use of that stuff for us?" Veneto looked around to make sure no one was there before lowering his voice and saying, "You know we don't need so-called employment counseling."

Seemingly to emphasize the importance of the upcoming exams, a large number of brochures about various wizarding professions appeared at Hogwarts during the Easter holidays. For example, there was a stack on the table in front of Hermione and the others.

But for Hugo and the others, this thing had no value at all, because they now had their own careers to pursue, which had nothing to do with the jobs in the Ministry of Magic's handbook.

"That's true, but Professor Flitwick will be conducting individual consultations for each of us in a few days, so we'd better prepare some talking points for it, so it will be easier to answer questions during the consultation." Hermione nodded.

And the time for the consultation came very quickly. When they returned from class the next afternoon, they found a notice about employment counseling posted on the Hogwarts notice board.

According to the requirements on the notice, all fifth-year students must attend a short meeting during the first week of the summer term to discuss future employment issues with their Head of House.

Attached to the end of the notice was a timetable. Hugo found that he was scheduled to go to Professor Flitwick's office at four o'clock on Monday afternoon. This meant that he would have to run to the Charms classroom as quickly as possible after finishing Arithmancy.

On the second day after the end of the Halloween holiday, Hugo came to Professor Flitwick's office on time after finishing Arithmancy and began his employment consultation.

Due to his consistently excellent performance, Professor Flitwick believed that as long as Hugo could follow the steps, he would definitely become a powerful alchemist in the future, and he was very likely to become an alchemy master like Nicolas Flamel.

"During the exam, just relax and show your usual level." Professor Flitwick looked at Hugo and said earnestly. "With your grades, you shouldn't be stumped by a small O.W.L. exam."

"But if you want to become an alchemist, you need to have enough wealth to support it, so you'd better find a relatively stable job in the early stages to accumulate experience and wealth." After saying those things, Professor Flitwick said.

"When the time comes, I can write you a letter of recommendation to introduce you to some good alchemy shops, after all, your situation may not be good for contacting those suitable people."

In addition to Hugo, several ship girls all successfully passed this consultation and received a very good evaluation result.

"But in fact, I think the job I'm suitable for should be to go to the Soviet Union and the others to study the operation of the Ministry of Magic after graduation, and then take the position of colonial governor as my goal," Hermione said softly.

"At least I think that compared to working in the Ministry of Magic, working in those colonies is more convenient to change this world and make the whole world a better place."

"You're right, after all, the colony is an entire social system that we've built from scratch, so we don't have to worry about the backlash from the old world and build a truly ideal city." Hugo nodded with a smile.

In the following time, the entire school entered a busy exam season, and everyone was busy preparing for the exams, even Umbridge quieted down.

On the ship girl's side, all construction was progressing steadily according to plan. With the completion of the resource collection and smelting base in the asteroid belt, the biggest difficulty restricting the Mars base was solved, and the overall construction also entered a climax.

"The best news recently is that we have completed the comprehensive mapping of the Earth's spatial coordinates." Through the Admiral Network, Massachusetts, the head of the Mars base, reported to Hugo.

"So, in an emergency, we can directly deploy troops quickly and on a large scale through the Sky Station, without relying on the highly confidential sub-space."

"That is to say, in large-scale battles, we can deploy enough troops, and not just rely on ship girls." Hugo shrugged and said.

"This is indeed very good news, especially now that war is about to break out on a large scale, we do need to consider the deployment of troops other than ship girls."